Merkiaari Wars Series: Books 1-3 by Cooper Mark E

Author:Cooper, Mark E. [Cooper, Mark E.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: high tech, space fleet, space exploration, series, cyborg, alien invasion, science fiction, space opera, military, nanotechnology, first contact
Publisher: Impulse Books UK
Published: 2013-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

17 ~ Activation

Tech Centre, Petruso Base, Snakeholme

Gina stood quietly in the padded room with her weapon hand pressed firmly into the palm shaped receptacle in the desk, and watched Doctor Patel study the data being displayed on his monitor. He was hunched over the desk on a level with the screen, and must have been uncomfortable, but he didn’t show it. Gina looked around the room, but apart from the desk and the padded walls, there was nothing he could use for a chair. She had heard about padded rooms before this, but she had never dreamed she would become the occupant of one. Patel typed a command into the recessed keyboard in the desktop, and nodded approvingly when fresh results appeared. Gina tried to guess what he was thinking by watching his expression, but it wasn’t working. Patel was her judge and jury. As head of Medical, he had to sign off on her fitness for graduation.

“Try to remain absolutely still, Recruit.”

Gina turned back to watch him, and tried not to fidget. She had worked toward this for months, but now the waiting was over, and she found herself almost floating off the floor in anticipation. Any second now she would become a viper in full measure. She watched Patel intently as he reviewed the data so recently downloaded from her permanent memory. She had no idea what the individual bytes of data meant, but there was an awful lot of it. Could he actually read real memories from just a bunch of numbers? Was he seeing images in place of those figures?

“Sir?”

“Hmmm?” Patel said, still concentrating on the data dump. “You have a question, Recruit?”

“I was just wondering… I mean if you don’t mind telling me…”

“Out with it, Recruit. I’m a little busy here.”

“Sorry, sir,” she said and bulled ahead. “I was wondering if you can actually decipher the data dump.”

Patel smiled, and he looked up at her. “Can I see everything you did since day one of enhancement?”

“Well… yes, sir.”

“Of course I can.”

She gaped. “You can?”

Patel smiled. “Certainly. Think it through, Recruit. How would it be possible for a viper unit to download an experience into the simulators for others to use, if I couldn’t do something similar here?”

Gina frowned. She knew about downloading recon data from her lessons in the classroom, but she hadn’t thought to apply the knowledge here. She was annoyed with herself. She shouldn’t need to be told to think problems through. She should have remembered her lesson and applied it.

“Don’t worry, I’m far more interested in your system parameters, than I am in your expertise at climbing or canoing.” Patel pointed at the lines of data currently displayed on the monitor. “You should have worn a life preserver. Your enhancement doesn’t mean you can’t drown.”

Gina smiled sheepishly.

“Don’t feel too bad, Recruit. This sort of thing does take getting used to.”

It did, but now she was thinking, she realised something else. “This is how the archives were created.”

Patel nodded solemnly. “We never truly die, Recruit.

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